{"id":103196,"date":"2017-05-19T04:20:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T08:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103196"},"modified":"2017-05-19T04:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T08:20:53","slug":"macrons-first-non-europe-trip-focuses-on-fighting-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/19\/macrons-first-non-europe-trip-focuses-on-fighting-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron&#8217;s first non Europe trip focuses on fighting extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103197\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17457930_302186050199272_328742588131809409_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103197\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17457930_302186050199272_328742588131809409_n.png\" alt=\"On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a scheduled visit to French-led military forces combatting jihadist groups in West Africa. (Photo: En Marche Mayotte\/Facebook)\" width=\"916\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17457930_302186050199272_328742588131809409_n.png 916w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17457930_302186050199272_328742588131809409_n-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17457930_302186050199272_328742588131809409_n-768x518.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a scheduled visit to French-led military forces combatting jihadist groups in West Africa. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EnMarcheMayotte\/photos\/p.302186050199272\/302186050199272\/?type=1&amp;opaqueCursor=AboXs-XjP-g1PBBMt4t0cGXPM6ZxlnUoV1_U91S-vlc9ezz4HKmhYycNyEzVBfDDu9GCakL6XzLbjVp0K6JEfF04eaqV1IYYp_bobZOoATmAkDOHbWayhc0fFjNuI42Hb_SCFKVqnTKO-5xSPLnG-fTsCapvGxT13vyA9QjXEvz6JcEO1eIuYI-UL2CXYsBGSmfsyPFnRXf5JvC-yajlYq4x_kSq7dI-nSMMnpCH84nHKhyhDThL3qQuleOJn7wyWjc-G8J8E-kH810dahPZp4F3IjMfjkGIHYz8AsKO7pDeWaOLCKdUCnPVTTm-6CKFBrdshnQOiwguvaffsAnCJCTHX5F4lolmBbMzS8K9bFBSJjr4x8Yw-NgjD1vi9EMNHEDsAUh4-pPcus7WXXgNbEtpTyBXmw76eHLVJmbXqY0xYQ&amp;theater\">En Marche Mayotte\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAMAKO, Mali \u2014 On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a scheduled visit to French-led military forces combatting jihadist groups in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>During Friday&#8217;s trip to Mali, Macron will be briefed on the inner workings of Operation Barkhane. It is France&#8217;s largest overseas military mission, with more than 4,000 soldiers in Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania. He is expected to visit a French base in the eastern city of Gao.<\/p>\n<p>Macron repeatedly pledged ahead of his May 7 election that fighting terror would be his priority, after multiple attacks in France since 2015 that killed more than 230 people.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the West African extremist groups France is combatting trace their origins to al-Qaida&#8217;s North Africa branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMAKO, Mali \u2014 On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[16067],"class_list":["post-103196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-emmanuel-macron","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}